static libraries' policy

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Tue Nov 8 19:53:11 UTC 2005


On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:

> in the gtkwave tarball, the zlib and bzip2 libraries 
> are included, so I had to edit the Makefile to get it to link against the 
> system versions of these libraries instead.

Brrr. Scary. Saw this in architecture in PHP long ago, but atleast it had 
the good manner to use the system version if available.

Have you hit upstream with this issue?

Linus




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